Principal Planner

Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for a Principal Planner to be engaged on a contract basis (outside IR35 considered). Candidates will ideally be based in Manchester and hybrid working will be supported.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Planning team under the direction of the Project Controls Manager and develop and maintain a good working relationship with Client and work colleagues.
• Control, monitor, analyse and report schedule related aspects for designated projects within a Portfolio and liaise with the Commercial Team and the Project Controls Team to assist in the production of key project schedule metrics.
• Ensure all changes to the baseline on a project are understood and managed in an appropriate way.
• Continually monitor Project Risk and Change status to maintain current schedule forecast.
• Liaise with Project team members and contractors with regards to progress and forecasting and provide 'what-if' analysis on schedules as and when required.
• Monitor, control and analyse the project schedule information, identify variances, and bring these to the attention of the Project Manager with possible alternatives. Prepare specific reports to facilitate challenge and analysis to meet the project's specific needs.
• Challenge schedule variances against the baseline plan with individual task leaders/contractors and/or outside stakeholder management as necessary to enable mitigation.
• To cover your absence from site during holiday periods, you are to hand over your duties to a delegate agreed with your manager.

Essential

• Understand the inter-relationship between time cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• Experience across whole project and programme lifecycle. (e.g., Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation/Commissioning & handover processes).
• Experience of developing, implementing and maintaining a project planning procedure and extensive experience in producing project schedule reports.
• A creative and innovative approach to problem solving and extensive experience of collation information, preparing reports, processing supplier schedules, application of company procedures and policies.
• Strong analytical skills
• Confidence and ability to assert influence
• Proficient in the interpretation of Earned Value Analysis.
• Excellent MS Office skills and well versed in the preparation of reports and information using packages such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Highly Regulated Work Environments
• Membership of a professional institution e.g. AcostE, APM etc.

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